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Re: Nintendo Of America Employee Tests Positive For COVID-19

NambanRonin

@Heavyarms55 Check out the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, Welfare website. As of this posting, 25,456 people in Japan have been tested. This means 200 test per million people in Japan (pop. 127m). South Korea has tested 196,618 people (source: South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, last update Mar. 9), which translates to 3,840 tests per million people (pop. 51.2m). According to the WHO report titled "Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)," Guangdong, China tested 320,000 by the end of February, which translates to 2,820 tests per million people (pop. 113.5m).

Nobody knows how fast coronavirus is spreading and how many people are infected. The only way to better understand this is more testing. South Korea and other countries may have more cases simply because they've done more testing. Japan has had over a month to ramp up testing; there's no reason they should be so far behind South Korea and China.

For those curious, the United States has tested 42 per million people (as of March 12; 13,624 tested; pop. 320,000,000; source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).